I just edited a video on a pentium 4 with 2gb of ram, in avidemux.
Wow I love elive. Keep it up! 
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I've tried out a lot but have never found any better, be it stability, speed, ease or beauty (albeit in the last category there are other contenders) ..... on old or new hardware.
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Testing the live-USB version of the minimal-retro on an old Thinkpad X61T with only 2G Ram ..... it does everything at anazing speed.
Even playing movies doesn't make the machine flinch.
Base startup is a mere 286Mb RAM usage
Test for yourself if you like, the hybrid.iso here:
https://triantares.ddns.net/Elive/E16-Retro/elive-minimal-e16-hybrid.iso
It doesn't offer an "install" option (albeit, you could if you really want to) just a way of running it.
Feel free to download, try and comment. 
NB
The user is "elive" and password is "evile" .... else use the "guest" login which has no password (and no privileges).
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Idk guys, i just "bought" the latest elive version. With e24 everything is so friggin unstable that most people may say it's not too usable yet on a daily basis.
On the other hand, my god the speed of this thing is so addictive i cannot have enough of it.
And seriously, auto completition in vim??? What are we talking about??? Lately i'm working on a full sized IOT infrastructure, completely managed, coded and organized within a terminology window. I'm dead, i love this thing @Thanatermesis. Are u delivering us some sort of version without GUI? Please? Or some sort of package i can install on any debian system so that all the servers i deal with have the elive tools built in their terminals??? Or do you have hints on how should i do it myself? I don't want to go back to everytday plain linux/windows ever again
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Your wishes have come true: 
https://github.com/Elive/elive-for-servers
It works fine on my home servers.
Be sure to really be 'root' when you run the script (i.e 'su' or 'sudo su')...... only a 'sudo' prefix isn't good enough.
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Works fine on my (Ubuntu) one too, except it does seem to try to update the kernel which results in a panic. 
Thank you!
Will try it immediately
Exactly what happens ....... initrd not being created or what?
No clue... Because it's a shared VPS i had to uninstall the new version immediately after I realised the problem.
The old one was 5.4.0-81-generic IIRC, the new one 5.4.0-91-generic.
I managed to boot back into it because the old kernel was still available in boot options.
I'm not sure I follow there i.e why you HAD to uninstall, considering the "available boot options". 
I'm taking you're still booting into an "Elivized" server despite using an older kernel so no real harm is done. 
Read the code and cherry pick what you need is also an alternative.
If the server ever rebooted, I'd have to be there to reset the server after the panic and then choose the older kernel.
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